6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Spiders are bite-sized and terrified of us. Well -- most of them, anyway ...
6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

They're bite-sized and terrified of us, and they keep the mosquito population from obliterating mankind. In return, we rank them somewhere between bears and serial killers on the list of things you don't want to see in your home. We're speaking, of course, about spiders.

That's not to say we're overly sympathetic, though. After all, if spiders didn't want us to be terrified of them, they wouldn't run around looking so damn terrifying. Here are six terrifying spiders that will haunt your dreams ...

Scorpion-Tailed Spider

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams
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The scorpion-tailed spider is so named for the weird, elongated abdomen of the female, which may not sting like a scorpion, but can wiggle and curl around to presumably confuse its predators. You don't have to do the whole routine, honey, we were already confused enough.

Ravine Trapdoor Spider

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Looking like its body was sliced off and tattooed with some kind of satanic gateway, Cyclocosmia truncata actually uses its manhole-cover backside like, well, a manhole cover, sealing off its burrow from potential predators.

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

You know we're dealing with one hardcore fucker when its instinctive response to an attack is to present its ass.

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Blind Cave Huntsman

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Sinopoda scurion was discovered only this year, and is considered the first known example of a "huntsman" spider completely losing its eyes. It doesn't need eyes to hunt in the perpetual darkness of its subterranean world, but we're not entirely convinced it doesn't at least want eyes.

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

What's to stop them from coming after ours?

Tree Stump Spider

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

What "tree stump spider"? Is it behind the stick? Is it inside the stick? Is it behind the camera, photographing sticks? We don't under-

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Oh. Oh no. How is this even a thing? This isn't a spider. It's a wang with a whole spider for testicles. Kill it dead. Now.

Horned Spider

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

So it's a spider that wears a Satan mask? Seems about right to us. And it also comes in a variety of terrifying shapes ...

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

... and colors, you say?

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Fantastic. Now if you could please see to it that we don't wake up next to one ever, that would be great. It's bad enough that we'll have them in our nightmares for time eternal.

Ladybug Mimic Spider

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Oh, hey there, adorable little ladybug. It sure is nice seeing you after this nonstop parade of terror. Let's get a look at your pretty face.

6 Terrifying Spiders That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Damn you, Mother Nature. Damn you.

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